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Matt Higgins / CBS Connecticut:
CBS News: 27 Dead, Including 20 Children, In Elementary School Shooting — NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut/AP) — CBS News is reporting that at least 27 people are dead, including 20 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman is among the dead.
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New York Times:
18 Children Killed in Grade School Shooting in Connecticut — Eighteen children were killed on Friday morning in a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, according to a person who had been briefed on the shooting.
Hartford Courant:
One Confirmed Dead In School Shooting In Newtown — State police responding to a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — At least one person is dead after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dickinson Drive. — Police said there are multiple shooting victims.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Says Connecticut School Massacre Occurred Because We ‘Removed God From Our Schools’ — Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee attributed today's deadly massacre in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut to the lack of God and religion in public schools.
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Fischer: God Didn't Stop CT School Shooting Because He's a ‘Gentleman’ Who Doesn't Go Where He Is Not Wanted — Bryan Fischer spent the first hour of his radio program today discussing this morning's truly horrific shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, which he, of course …
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Pete Yost / bigstory.ap.org:
AP SOURCE: SUSPECT DROVE TO MOTHER'S SCHOOL — You are here — Home » United States government » AP source: Suspect drove to mother's school — WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at the school …
Rep. John Frey / CNN:
Gunman dead, two adults killed in Connecticut school shooting — [Updated at 12:27 p.m. ET] The mom who spoke to CNN's Meredith Artley said she heard “at least 100 rounds” being fired. — The shooting began about 9:35 a.m., the parent said. There was a “pop pop pop” in the hall outside the room.
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Obama, silent about union violence in Michigan, immediately reacts to Connecticut school shooting — Predictable as the sunrise. Sayeth the Light Bringer and erstwhile armory to the Mexican drug cartels: … Yes. And we can begin “c0ming together” by stoking race hatred …
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
LIVE UPDATES: Newtown, Conn., School Shooting — 7:00 p.m.: Authorities continue to question Ryan Lanza, the shooter's brother, but say he is not under any suspicion. — Tune in to World News with Diane Sawyer at 6:30 p.m. ET. — 6:25 p.m.:Nancy Lanza, mother of gunman Adam Lanza, was found dead in her Connecticut home.
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New York Post:
MASSACRE: Up to 27 people, including 20 children, shot dead at elementary school in Connecticut
MASSACRE: Up to 27 people, including 20 children, shot dead at elementary school in Connecticut
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BuzzFeed:
Gun Control Org Sees “Huge” Influx Of Donations After Sandy Hook Shooting
Gun Control Org Sees “Huge” Influx Of Donations After Sandy Hook Shooting
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Washington Post:
School shooting: President Obama's remarks on the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown …
School shooting: President Obama's remarks on the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown …
Skschust / CBS New York:
20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown Elementary School Massacre
20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown Elementary School Massacre
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Thoughts on the Newtown Elementary School Tragedy
Thoughts on the Newtown Elementary School Tragedy
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Associated Press:
Official with knowledge of Conn. school shooting: 27 dead, including 18 children
Official with knowledge of Conn. school shooting: 27 dead, including 18 children
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AP Member Choice Limited / Chicago Tribune:
Connecticut elementary school shooting: Multiple deaths reported
Connecticut elementary school shooting: Multiple deaths reported
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David Frum / david-frum:
Every Day is the Day to Talk About Gun Control — I have a daughter in a public elementary school in the District of Columbia. When I read news of a school shooting, it touches a particularly intimate place in me. To be a parent is to be haunted by fears.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States — When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don't talk about reforming our gun control laws.”
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On — Insane rampages are, sadly, not confined to the United States. One happened this very day in China, where a cruel madman attacked a group of children at school. — Here's the difference: — Twenty-two children injured.
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Hours After Connecticut Kindergarten Shooting, Michigan GOP Calls For Allowing Guns In Schools
Hours After Connecticut Kindergarten Shooting, Michigan GOP Calls For Allowing Guns In Schools
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Allison Benedikt / Slate:
President Obama, Today Is the Day To Politicize This Tragedy — We don't need you to cry at the podium. We need you to do something. — President Obama: — Twenty-seven people are dead, 20 of them children, and you just told the nation that we're all going to have to “extend a hand to those in need.”
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Carney On Gun Control: “Today Is Not The Day” (VIDEO)
Carney On Gun Control: “Today Is Not The Day” (VIDEO)
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Mike Bloomberg:
Statements of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chairs on Newtown, Connecticut Shooting
Statements of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chairs on Newtown, Connecticut Shooting
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
McCarthy: I will embarrass Obama on gun control
McCarthy: I will embarrass Obama on gun control
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
White House: “Today Is Not The Day” To Debate Gun Control
White House: “Today Is Not The Day” To Debate Gun Control
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Marijuana Not High Obama Priority — President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a “top priority” of federal law enforcement officials prosecuting the war on drugs. — “We've got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said of pot users …
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Ethan Nadelmann / The Huffington Post:
Parsing Obama's Words on Legalizing Marijuana
Parsing Obama's Words on Legalizing Marijuana
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Bobby Jindal / Wall Street Journal:
The End of Birth-Control Politics — Over-the-counter sales of oral contraceptives will cut off a disingenuous attack line. — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced its support last month for selling oral contraceptives over the counter without a prescription in the United States.
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Jarrett Skorup / Michigan Capitol Confidential:
'We'll Be At Your Daughter's Soccer Game!' — Union protest speaker tells governor that union members will ‘visit you’ everywhere over right-to-work bill — LANSING — A speaker at a union protest against right-to-work legislation said if Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill he would get …
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Matthew Chapman / The Huffington Post:
NRA: Still Not Enough? — Newtown Elementary School Shooting , School Shooting , Newtown , Newtown School Shooting , Sandy Hook , Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting , School Shootings , Politics News — How many people will have to die before the NRA and the politicians they control …
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Politico:
MSNBC launches the gun control conversation — In the wake of recent shootings, from Aurora to Kansas City, many have argued that it is not the time to talk about gun control. — But as the death toll from today's tragic shooting in Netwown, Conn., was rising, MSNBC and others in the media spurned that familiar refrain.
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